"Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Matriarch in the West" Thursday Feb.17 at 6:30 pm ET via zoom

Join us this Thursday, February 17 at 6:30 PM ET via zoom for our second lecture in the Bluegrass Classics Lecture Series, Drusilla Dunjee Houston: Matriarch of the West. Dr. Peggy Brooks Bertram shares with us her experiences learning and writing about this almost forgotten figure of African American History. The author of "The Wonderful Ethiopians of the Cushite Empire" (1924). This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Gaines Humanities Center and is part of the 2022 Mini Grant Series. To register: https://uky.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIkdeytrjksGdx_1jxT7sFP6cuHWma_XGFj

American Book Award winnder Emily Raboteau will read from and discuss her most recent work "Searching for Zion:  The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora"

Sponsored by African American & Africana Studies Program, English Creative Writing Program, Jewish Studies Program, and Social Theory Program.